Honeypot risk to chip supply chains

Personal relationships between senior tech executives and foreign nationals can be exploited as espionage vectors that directly threaten restricted hardware flows, corporate value and national technical advantage. This transforms ordinary sexual misconduct into a supply‑chain and national‑security risk that regulators, boards and security services need to anticipate. — If true and common, this exposes a neglected category of vulnerability—intimate relationships—as a vector for technology transfer and market shocks with geopolitical consequences.